(December 9, 2011 at 5:17 am)tackattack Wrote: Without God mental excercise activated- good things happen to me because I make good things happen and because of my enviornment and available resources. Lucky me I guess. To answer your other quesiton no I haven't prayed for AIDS to be cured and don't feel convicted to. LEt's be realistic though, even if I publicly claimed to pray for the cure for AIDS and tomorrow someone published a cure for AIDS, you'd still not give any credit to prayer or God, it would all be for the scientists publishing the cure.
You claimed that your prayers have always been answered successfully. Should your God take as long to figure it out as scientists? Is he all powerful, or is he not? He doesn't need to go into a lab for three years to sort out the problem, surely? You pray, tonight, for all AIDS to disappear instantly. If you really think your prayers are answered all the time, and you continue to pray for trivial stuff for your own benefit instead of things like this, that paints you as a pretty callous, self interested individual. Or, you realise on some level that it doesn't really work and it's just a nice little thing inside your own head that you like to pretend works because it makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside.
On another note, are you saying the millions of Christian Africans don't honestly believe? I imagine them starving to death, looking up to the sky, pleading to someone they were told as sincerely as anything not only existed, but was looking out for them and loved them. And the answer is conspicuous by its absence. If you can really claim with a straight face that the being responsible for this is worthy of worship, or just, or good, I have nothing but pity for you.
Still, as long as you get your bonus at work, eh?
